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Gawler Environment and Heritage Association, GEHA, is active in campaigning and projects concerning environment and heritage issues in Gawler and surrounding areas. We are currently engaged in revegetation and restoration projects, historic Gawler database project, inventory of flora and fauna, promoting biodiversity in gardens, blocks and farms, and promoting sustainable approaches to development. Please e-mail us at finniss@bigpond.net.au

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Denise Fenwick Says:

July 27, 2008 at 7:29 am
I came across your website while searching for suitable native plants to put in my backyard garden at an 1880s cottage in Gawler. Can you recommend any sites/books etc where I could get precise information about local vegetation?

Thanks

Denise

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Tristan Morrow Says:

January 9, 2011 at 1:52 am
Dear Denise,

That’s fantastic that you want to vegetate your garden with indigenous native flora. From my own experience, indigenous flora prove most reliable and their growth is un-surpassed.

Three books that I can highly recommend are:

Bagust, P. & Tout-Smith, L., (2010) “The Native Plants of Adelaide: Returning the vanishing heritate of the Adelaide Plains to your garden”,2nd ed., Hawke Intersections Books.
ISBN: 978 1 86254 879 4

Berkinshaw, T., (2009) “Mangroves to Mallee: The complete guide to the vegetation of temperate South Australia” (2009), Greening Australia.
ISBN: 978-0-9775143-2-8

Kraehenbuehl, D.N., (1996) “Pre-European Vegetation of Adelaide: A survey from the gawler river to hallett cove”, Nature Conservation Society of South Australia.
ISBN: 0 949751 24 3

All of these books come with wonderful maps, and detailed lists of latin names (to help you more easily locate them from plant suppliers). The books should be readily available from a library, but if not, I would happy to help you put together a list of plants for your garedn, with information drawn from these texts, as I own all of them.

Please do not hesitate to contact me, via this site, for any further information.

Kind regards, and have fun in your garden!

Tristan Morrow

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